Maria Assumpció Català i Poch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Spanish mathematician and astronomer
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Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
About Maria Assumpció Català i Poch
- María Assumpció Català i Poch (Barcelona, 14 July 1925 – ib.
- 3 July 2009) was a Spanish professor, mathematician, and astronomer.
- She taught from 1952 to 1991.
- She started as an assistant in the Astronomy Section of the Seminar on Mathematics in Barcelona, related to the Spanish National Research Council (in Spanish, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, from this point forward abbreviated to, CSIC).
- Later, she worked in the Henri Poincaré Institute and she also cooperated in some projects with the special chair of Technology in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia. In 1970, she was the first woman to earn a science PHD in the Mathematics Section of the University of Barcelona (UB).
- Her thesis's name was: Contribución al estudio de la dinámica de los sistemas estelares de simetría cilíndrica (in English, Contribution to the study of the dynamics of stellar systems with cylindrical symmetry).
- She performed systematic monitorings of sunspots and calculations of orbits and eclipses for more than thirty years. She directed eleven degree theses and seven doctoral theses.
- In addition, she represented Spain in the Commission 46 on the Education of the Astronomy of the International Astronomical Union for 15 years and she worked as the scientific consultant for the Astronomy section of the Spanish version of National Geographic magazine.She retired in 1984, but she continued contact with the astronomy and university communities, attending events such as the biannual meetings of the Spanish Society of Astronomy.
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